Author Topic: What to use for a simple attractant for hogs? (Read 2370 times)

tacotime · « **on:** November 04, 2010, 10:27:31 AM »

No time to sour and bury some corn. I've tried Hog Wild, but never seen a hog near it. I need something I can buy maybe at the food store or whatever that hogs will come to. A friend used to use some green onion salad dressing on a stump to pull some deer in. Is there something like this I can spread out on the ground or a stump that will draw some hogs out of the brush?

Thanks.

fatercat · « **Reply #1 on:** November 04, 2010, 11:16:23 AM »

just throw whole corn on the ground. works all the time

SHOOTALL · « **Reply #2 on:** November 04, 2010, 11:20:03 AM »

Corn and more corn . IF ITS LEGAL

SwampThing762 · « **Reply #3 on:** November 04, 2010, 06:58:03 PM »

Corn is the best attractant. Keep putting it out. If you place it, they will come. Hogs will never pass up a free meal once found.

tacotime · « **Reply #4 on:** November 05, 2010, 05:09:13 AM »

I need something a little more powerful. The surrounding properties all have multiple feeders full of corn for deer and have for years. I don't want to spend the time and money to compete with them, I just need something strong that I can throw out and get the attention of any hogs in smelling range. Anybody? Anything?

Dixie Dude · « **Reply #5 on:** November 05, 2010, 05:15:58 AM »

Can't do that in Alabama during deer hunting season, as corn also attracts deer. Food plots are legal.

SHOOTALL · « **Reply #6 on:** November 05, 2010, 05:16:48 AM »

Corm mash . It will get the smell out fer sure . Cracked corn , little sugar add water and let sit in a bucket a few days . Add some whole corn when you toss out on ground.

Swampman · « **Reply #7 on:** November 05, 2010, 05:37:33 AM »

Burlap bags soaked in burnt motor oil and wrapped around the bases of trees in the areas they are working.

SHOOTALL · « **Reply #8 on:** November 05, 2010, 05:46:17 AM »

I wonder if a salt block would work ? Maybe a sented one .

Dixie Dude · « **Reply #9 on:** November 05, 2010, 05:59:45 AM »

Also in Alabama cant' use corn during turkey seasons. Outside of turkey and deer it is legal as hogs are legal year round.

mattmillerrx · « **Reply #10 on:** November 05, 2010, 06:14:59 AM »

Back when I raised hogs, we used corn, wheat or any other grain I could find for cheap and left it in water for a few days until it ferments. Stinks bad but hogs eat it like candy. Never tried it on wild hogs, but might be tastier than the feeders the next lot over. Once they get a taste the smell may help bring them in. As i said this is just a guess.

HL · « **Reply #11 on:** November 05, 2010, 09:05:55 AM »

If you can stomach it, find a rotting carcass of some kind and set that out. They even eat their own dead.

chutesnreloads · « **Reply #12 on:** November 05, 2010, 06:34:56 PM »

A bag of potatoes sliced 1" thick scattered in your"kill zone".Get em at any supermarket and fairly easy to carry and put out.

Land_Owner · « **Reply #13 on:** November 08, 2010, 08:19:09 AM »

Quote from: SHOOTALL on November 05, 2010, 05:16:48 AM

Corm mash . It will get the smell out fer sure . Cracked corn , little sugar add water and let sit in a bucket a few days . Add some whole corn when you toss out on ground.

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You need to get the SMELL of something into the air. Fermenting corn will do it quickly. I used to use a gallon milk jug, cut so I could add ingredients through the top hole and still hang it by its handle from a tree limb where the hogs could not get it. Just add corn, water, and some sugar. Mother Nature will do the rest. Yes, it will take a couple of warm days to get it going. In the mean time, make some pig pipes to keep them coming when they find the source of that sweet (to them anyway) smell.

gstewart44 · « **Reply #14 on:** November 09, 2010, 03:31:32 AM »

I dig a hole with a post hole digger about 10 inches diameter and 2 feet down - fill it with corn then pour a 6 pack of the cheapest rankest beer or malt liquor i can find (you know the stuff thats 2.99) cover the top with a little dirt and sprinkle some corn around. That hole will keep the pigs coming in for a while.

SHOOTALL · « **Reply #15 on:** November 09, 2010, 03:33:12 AM »

I guess ya'll consider wind direction when placeing your stand ?

tacotime · « **Reply #16 on:** November 09, 2010, 07:48:16 AM »

Good advice... I think I'll try a motor oil saoked carpet wired to a stump for a rub, and some sour corn in the hole if I can get the whole dug, and maybe add a bucket hung in the tree as well! Thanks!

Dee · « **Reply #17 on:** November 09, 2010, 12:58:33 PM »

Mix up a gallon of strawberry cool aide a little strong, and pour it into a bucket of cheap cornflakes, and stir it up. You can then scatter it a little or just set the bucket on a nail driven into a tree where they have a run. It won't last long but the sweet smell will carry for a long way down wind, and they love the mixture.

SHOOTALL · « **Reply #18 on:** November 10, 2010, 02:57:38 AM »

Dee that sounds like breakfast at college

Dee · « **Reply #19 on:** November 10, 2010, 09:00:24 AM »

Yep! You can also substitute that cheap red soda for the kool aid, and it works too.

dougk · « **Reply #20 on:** November 10, 2010, 10:42:33 PM »

I have found that Black Gold, holds them in the area. But I have to agree with the other posters that corn is the attractant. Also, they appear to find the smelly, rotting, moldy corn the fastest.

Land_Owner · « **Reply #21 on:** November 11, 2010, 12:18:32 PM »

Don't add motor oil or diesel fuel to any of the corn or food supplements. You wouldn't eat that in the first place so there is no use introducing it into the hogs that you may eventually eat.

Mohawk · « **Reply #22 on:** November 13, 2010, 09:02:25 AM »

Sounds like a trip to the liquor store would be a good start.

tacotime · « **Reply #23 on:** November 15, 2010, 04:32:20 AM »

A good start and a good finish!

deernhog · « **Reply #24 on:** November 15, 2010, 03:47:42 PM »

Corn and Diesel work good for hogs to attract them. While we eat some we shoot all we can find to thin them out. Never noticed a bad flavor in the meat but it is just the attractant to get them coming, them whole or soaked corn. I get tired of messing with the diesel real quick when I'm hunting and you can't keep from getting it on you.

HL · « **Reply #25 on:** November 16, 2010, 02:44:40 AM »

I use the pig pipes and also keep corn in 5 gallon buckets soaked and fermented with 2-3 packages of grape or cherry cool-aid. To keep the deer or cattle from eating the sour mash, 1/2 cup of diesel per 5 gallon bucket will do the trick.

galster69 · « **Reply #26 on:** November 21, 2010, 01:07:35 PM »

I don't know from experience but I've been told by a buddy who's bagged MANY hogs to whip up some strawberry jell-o, put it in a container and bury it just below the surface. They can't stay away from it. He buries about 10 all around his stand.

rickt300 · « **Reply #27 on:** November 25, 2010, 08:27:42 AM »

Pour some used cooking oil on your corn, then sprinkle some strawberry jello on top. I have killed a lot of hogs eating this mix.

Empty Quiver · « **Reply #28 on:** November 25, 2010, 10:51:50 AM »

If you know of any farmers with silage, you might want to try some of that. You would certainly get that mash smell, or at least the starter to get your corn going faster.

tacotime · « **Reply #29 on:** November 29, 2010, 05:05:51 AM »

Thanks!